Sky News host Andrew Bolt says “we must understand” how COVID-19 started but China has gone out of its way “to stop us from learning the truth”.
“That's very suspicious,” Mr Bolt said. It comes after the World Health Organization's Director-General declared the first report into the origins of COVID-19 shows that the “assessment was not extensive enough” and the theory the virus originated in a laboratory “requires further investigation”. Mr Bolt spoke to Flinders University Professor Nikolai Petrovsky to discuss the recently released World Health Organization report into the origins of COVID-19.
“We need to know the origins of this virus,” Professor Petrovksy said. “Currently we can speculate about a possible animal source, we can speculate about a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan. “But the truth is at the moment we don’t have access to the information that we require to actually make that assessment.
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